Résumé
Teaching — twenty-six years (since 2000)
Studio Director
Founder and Director
Community
Volunteer Music Instructor; founder and director of the center’s Senior Club music ensemble.
Tehran, Iran
Sixteen years in music academies and private studio instruction.
Enrollment
More than 150 students annually — approximately 50 in weekly private instruction, the remainder in group classes and community programs; ages five through adult professionals.
Subjects
Orff music education · sight-reading, solfège and ear training · theory · voice (Persian classical, traditional and fusion) · tar and setar · the radif, gushehs and dastgāhs · morakkab-khāni · composition and the setting of poetry to music.
Method
His teaching rests on three foundations — the Orff approach; the radifs of Mirzā Abdollāh and Abdollāh Davāmi; and the textbooks he has written himself, drawing on years of experience and on his training in the tradition of the great masters of Persian music.
Music — composition and performance
Nine albums and two singles
Nine albums and two singles, composed and produced — from classical Persian music to fusion with Spanish flamenco, traditional pop, traditional jazz and classical music. Five releases are available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and other major international platforms.
Shahan Music Ensemble
Performance
Concert performances in Tehran and the United States.
Audio engineering
Recording, editing, mixing, mastering and release.
Books — twelve titles
Six Hundred Classical Melodies
Sheet music of six hundred classical melodies for performance, spanning every era of classical music.
A Brief Guide to Classical Music
A concise educational guide to classical music.
Women of France
A novel.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Seven Languages
A parallel-text edition presenting the Persian source alongside English, French, German, Russian, Turkish and Arabic translations.
From Darāmad to Forud
An educational book on Persian classical music, from the opening (darāmad) to the cadence (forud).
From Silence to Symphony
An illustrated music-education volume in 31 chapters.
Sight-Reading from Zero to Mastery
A complete course in reading music, from the first steps to an advanced professional level.
The Last Memory Exchange
A novel.
The Deep Archive
A novel.
The School of Broken Minds
A novel.
The History of Iran’s Music
Comprehensive Book of Persian Traditional Music
A pedagogical text; the core curriculum of the studio.
Articles
Thirty to forty articles and interviews in Iranian music journals and newspapers.
Poetry
Divan of Ghazals
A collection of ghazals by Ehsan Hajialiasgar.
Education
Art Technology
Completed studies in Art Technology.
Civil Engineering and Music
Affiliations and credentials
Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)
Candidate for MTNA Professional Certification (NCTM), Voice track, with a specialization in Persian classical voice and repertoire.
California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT)
Grade One Instructor Card
Teaching Qualification License
Memberships
BMI · SoundExchange · Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) · Artists’ Credit Fund of Iran
Additional practice
Photography
Photographer across multiple genres; five private exhibitions.
Design
Cover design for albums and books, as well as posters and banners; jewelry design for Mozonef and Silvameh; interior design for Jadeh-ye Abrisham (Silk Road) company; and apparel design for ZO.
Mosha’ereh
First place nationwide in Iran’s national mosha’ereh (poetry recitation) competition, at the age of thirteen.